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Paola
Paola is a female given name, the Italian form of the name Paula. Notable people with the name include: People In arts and entertainment *Paola Del Medico (born 1950), Swiss singer *Paola e Chiara, pop music duo consisting of two sisters born in Milan, Italy *Paola Foka (born 1982), Greek singer *Paola Gaviria known as Power Paola (born 1977), Colombian-Ecuadorian cartoonist *Paola Oliveira, Brazilian actress * Suzanne Paola (born 1956), American poet and author *Paola Rey (born 1979), Colombian actress *Paola Rojas (born 1976), Mexican television news personality *Paola Turbay (born 1970), Colombian actress *Danna Paola (born 1995), Mexican actress and singer *Paola Lázaro (born 1994), Puerto Rican actress and playwright In politics *Paola Balducci (born 1949), Italian politician and jurist *Paola Concia (born 1963), Italian politician *Paola De Micheli (born 1973), Italian politician *Paola Pabón (born 1978) Ecuadorian politician and feminist *Paola Pinna (born 1974), I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danna Paola
Danna Paola Rivera Munguía (born 23 June 1995) is a Mexican singer, model and actress. She gained popularity as a child actress and singer, starring in dozens of television projects throughout her early childhood and adolescence. Early life Danna Paola was born and raised in Mexico City. She is the daughter of Patricia Munguía and Juan José Rivera Arellano, the former singer of Grupo Ciclón and Los Caminantes. Her parents divorced during her childhood. She has an older sister, Vania Rivera Munguía. Acting career 1999–2003: Early career Danna Paola's acting career began in 1999 when at age 4 she and her sister attended Televisa's casting call in Mexico City for ''Plaza Sésamo'', the Mexican version of ''Sesame Street''. Both were later cast on the show and appeared in several episodes. 2004–2012: Breakout success In 2004, she was chosen as the lead in the successful children's series ''Amy, la niña de la mochila azul''. Her second studio album, ''Océano'', soon fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola Del Medico
Paola del Medico Felix (born 5 October 1950) is a Swiss singer. Career Born in Saint-Gall to an Italian father and a Swiss mother, Paola del Medico has sung mostly in German and French. She represented Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 with the song " Bonjour, Bonjour", finishing in fifth place. In 1980, she represented Switzerland for a second time in the Eurovision Song Contest with " Cinéma", where she finished in fourth place. Between 1981 and 1990 she co-hosted "Verstehen Sie Spaß?", a ''Candid Camera''-style show, for the German TV station ARD together with her husband Kurt Felix. She was in contention to represent Germany for the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 with the song "Peter Pan", but she finished 2nd in the national final. Discography Albums * 1970: Die grossen Erfolge * 1974: Paola * 1978: Blue Bayou * 1980: Lieder die ich liebe * 1981: Ihre größten Erfolge * 1981: Frohe Weihnachten mit Paola und den Trixis * 1983: Rosafarben * 1988: Kinder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola E Chiara
Paola e Chiara is an Italian pop music duo consisting of Paola Iezzi and Chiara Iezzi, two sisters, born in Milan. They are the best selling female Italian group with over 35 million records sold. Their national career began when the manager of Max Pezzali's pop band 883 saw the sisters playing in Milan, and signed them to the band. The sisters' career as "Paola e Chiara" began in 1997 when they parted from 883. In 1997, the sisters won the New-Artist category for the song "Amici come prima" at the Sanremo Festival. Soon after, they released their first album. They have since released five other studio albums, incorporating shifting musical influences (such as Spanish Pop and Celtic elements) and performing in several different languages, achieving international success in 2000. In July 2013, the duo released the album ''Giungla'', which also features rappers Razza Krasta and Moreno. Shortly after the release of the album, they announced their separation. Background Chiara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Power Paola
Power Paola (born Paola Andrea Gaviria Silguero; June 20, 1977) is a Colombian-Ecuadorian cartoonist. She is the author of graphic memoirs ''Virus Tropical'' (2011)'','' ''Por Dentro'' (2012), ''Diario'' (2013), ''qp'' (2014), ''Todo Va a Estar Bien (2015) and Nos vamos (2016)''. Her work deals with themes of sexuality, feminism, family, and personal identity. She is a member of the international comics collective Chicks on Comics. Biography Early life Paola Gaviria, known by the pen name Power Paola, was born in Quito, Ecuador. During her mother's pregnancy, a doctor insisted that she was not pregnant but was the victim of a "tropical virus." Her family moved to Cali, Colombia when she was 13 and she studied at the Fundación Universitaria de Bellas Artes in Medellin, where she cofounded the art collective Taller 7. She describes herself as a "nomad" and has since lived in Sydney, Paris, San Salvador, and Bogota, though she now lives in Buenos Aires. Comics Power Paola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola Ogechi Egonu
Paola Ogechi Egonu (born 18 December 1998) is an Italian volleyball player. She plays for Turkish volleyball club VakıfBank S.K. and was part of the Italy women's national volleyball team until 2022 when she is considering leaving from the team allegedly due to racism. She participated at the 2018 Montreux Volley Masters, 2018 FIVB Volleyball World Championship, and 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League. On club level she played for Club Italia in 2015. She was selected to play the Italian League All-Star game in 2017. In 2017 she moved to AGIL Novara. She was awarded the prize for Woman of the Year 2019 by ''D - la Repubblica delle donne'', a weekly magazine of ''la Repubblica''. She was one of the flagbearers of the Olympic Flag at the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo. Personal life Egonu was born in Cittadella, in Veneto, to Nigerian parents. Her father, Ambrose, is Igbo from Imo State and her mother, Eunice, from Benin City. She has two siblings, Angela and Andrea. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola Oliveira
Caroline Paola Oliveira da Silva (born April 14, 1982), best known as Paolla Oliveira, is a Brazilian actress. Biography Paolla Oliveira was born in São Paulo. Her father is a retired military policeman while her mother is a housewife. Paolla Oliveira started working as a model when she was 16 years old, but she eventually became an actress after finishing studying performing arts at the same time she graduated in physiotherapy at Cruzeiro do Sul University. She is of Portuguese, Italian and Spanish descent. Career After starring several television ads, she participated in the TV Record telenovela ''Metamorphoses'' in 2004, and in the following year she joined the cast of TV Globo telenovela Belíssima, where she played the role of "Giovana". Due to her popularity in Belíssima, in 2005 she was invited by O Profeta's production staff to play the telenovela's lead role of Sônia. In 2007, she played the role of Renata in TV Globo's end of the year special Os Amadores, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola Pisano
Paola Pisano (born 4 January 1977) is an Italian academic and politician for the Five Star Movement. In September 2019, she was appointed Minister for Technological Innovation in the Conte II Cabinet. Biography City Council member (Assessor) in charge of Innovation in the Turin constituency and university researcher in charge of Innovation Management at the University of Turin. She has been the President of the Company Commission of the IT department at the University of Turin and the Director of the Centre for Multidisciplinary Technological Innovation at the same Ateneum. (IcxT). Visiting Professor at Westminster University and consultant in several projects involving corporate innovation. In 2018 she was nominated ‘The most influential woman in the digital industry’ by magazine Digitalic Mag. In spring 2019 she declined to be the leading candidate for the 5 Star Movement (Movimento 5 Stelle) at the European Elections to keep her position of City Council member (Asse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola Pabón
Paola Verenice Pabón Caranqui (born 28 January 1978) is an Ecuadorian lawyer, politician and feminist, who in the course of her career, has served as a representative to the National Assembly for the PAIS Alliance movement from 2009 and 2015 and has also worked under the presidencies of Rafael Correa and Lenin Moreno. Biography Pabón was born on 28 January 1978 in Ibarra which is located in the Imbabura Province. She completed her higher education studies at the Central University of Ecuador and obtained a law degree. Pabón later went to the Rafael Landívar University in Guatemala where she earned a master's degree. She began her political career as a member of the Democratic Left Party where she remained for seven years. Pabón would eventually move to the PAIS Alliance movement, and it was when she was a member of the party that she was made its deputy director of their Quito branch. In the 2009 legislative elections, she was elected as a national assemblywoman and re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola Turbay
Paola Turbay Gómez (born November 29, 1970) is a Colombian-American actress, model, beauty queen, and television presenter. Related to Julio César Turbay Ayala, Turbay represented Bogotá in the Miss Colombia beauty pageant and won in 1991. She was the first runner-up in the 1992 Miss Universe competition. After finishing her studies in psychology at the Universidad de los Andes, Turbay focused on her career as a model and presenter in entertainment news segments on Noticias QAP and Noticiero C newscasts, as well as an actress. In 2005 she was the official presenter, with Miguel Varoni, of the National Beauty Pageant. She has also made cameo appearances in several Colombian series like ''O todos en la cama'', ''Ecomoda'' (sequel to ''Betty la fea'') and ''Leche'' ("Milk"). After studying acting in Hollywood, Florida, Turbay became the main character of the RCN TV comedy ''Noticias calientes'' ("Hot News") in 2002. Two years later she would star the telenovela ''Las noches d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola Espinosa
Paola Milagros Espinosa Sánchez (born 31 July 1986) is a Mexican diver and represented Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she was her national team's flagbearer, and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. In 1987, the Espinosa Sánchez family moved to La Paz from Mexico City with Paola, who was barely nine months old. In Athens in 2004, from speciality platform jumps of 10 meters, she placed in the individual jump and fifth in synchronized jumps. In the synchronized jumps, she participated with Tatiana Ortiz, who was also an Olympic medalist. On August 8, 2008, she was the champion of the Mexico national team at the Opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at the National Stadium in Beijing. She won a bronze medal in the Women's Synchronized 10-meter Platform at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing on 12 August 2008 with a score of 330.06. She won silver medal in the same event at the 2012 Summer Olymp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola De Micheli
Paola De Micheli (born 1 September 1973) is an Italian manager and politician of the Democratic Party (Italy), Democratic Party (PD), who served as Italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport in the government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte from 2019 until 2021; she was the first woman to hold the office. Early life and education De Micheli graduated in political sciences at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Catholic University in Milan and worked as a manager in the Food industry, agri-food industry. Political career Early beginnings De Micheli's first elective role was as municipal councilor of Pontenure from 1999 to 2004. In 2007, she joined the Democratic Party (Italy), Democratic Party (PD). From 2007 to 2010 she was municipal minister for Human and Economic Resources in Piacenza. In the 2008 Italian general election, De Micheli was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Chamber of Deputies and during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola Longoria
Paola Michelle Longoria López (born July 20, 1989) is a Mexican racquetball player. She is the current Women's World Champion in both Singles and Doubles, winning both divisions at the 2022 International Racquetball Federation (IRF) World Championships in San Luis Potosi. Longoria is the winningest player in IRF World Championship history, and she is the only woman to win both singles and doubles at Worlds. Longoria is also the #1 player on the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT) tour, and was the first Mexican woman to attain the #1 pro ranking, doing so at the end of the 2008–09 season. She repeated the feat at the end of 2009–2010 season, and has been #1 for ten consecutive seasons. Longoria's style is characterized by a semi-western grip of the racquet, which is unusual for racquetball; Longoria is the only pro player using this grip style. Junior competitions - 2001-2008 Longoria began playing racquetball at eight years old when she was at a summer camp, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
